George Fredrik Smith

List of John Benjamins publications for which George Fredrik Smith plays a role.

Articles

Smith, George Fredrik, Kristopher Kyle and Scott A. Crossley 2020 Word lists and the role of academic vocabulary use in high stakes speaking assessmentsInternational Journal of Learner Corpus Research 6:2, pp. 193–219 | Article
The current study explored the extent to which academic vocabulary lists could meet the lexical demands of academic speaking assessments. Indices of word use from lists of academic and general vocabulary were used to predict speaking scores on three TOEFL tasks. The results found weak… read more
Numerous studies have examined the role of various individual differences in second language (L2) learning and use, finding that factors such as aptitude (e.g., Robinson, 2005; Skehan, 2002), motivation (e.g., Dörnyei, Henry, & MacIntyre, 2014; Masgoret & Gardner, 2003), anxiety (e.g., Horwitz,… read more